Oscar Nominations and Winners (1961)

Best Picture

• Fanny
• The Guns of Navarone
• The Hustler
• Judgment at Nuremberg
• West Side Story

Best Director

• Federico Fellini (La Dolce Vita)
• Stanley Kramer (Judgment at Nuremberg)
• Robert Rossen (The Hustler)
• J. Lee Thompson (The Guns of Navarone)
• Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins (West Side Story)

Best Actor in a Leading Role

• Charles Boyer (Fanny)
• Paul Newman (The Hustler)
• Maximilian Schell (Judgment at Nuremberg)
• Spencer Tracy (Judgment at Nuremberg)
• Stuart Whitman (The Mark)

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

• George Chakiris (West Side Story)
• Montgomery Clift (Judgment at Nuremberg)
• Peter Falk (Pocketful of Miracles)
• Jackie Gleason (The Hustler)
• George C. Scott (The Hustler)

Best Actress in a Leading Role

• Audrey Hepburn (Breakfast at Tiffany's)
• Piper Laurie (The Hustler)
• Sophia Loren (Two Women)
• Geraldine Page (Summer and Smoke)
• Natalie Wood (Splendor in the Grass)

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

• Fay Bainter (The Children's Hour)
• Judy Garland (Judgment at Nuremberg)
• Lotte Lenya (The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone)
• Una Merkel (Summer and Smoke)
• Rita Moreno (West Side Story)

Best Adapted Screenplay

• Breakfast at Tiffany's (George Axelrod)
• The Guns of Navarone (Carl Foreman)
• The Hustler (Sidney Carroll and Robert Rossen)
• Judgment at Nuremberg (Abby Mann)
• West Side Story (Ernest Lehman)

Best Original Story and Screenplay

• Ballad of a Soldier (Valentin Yoshov and Grigori Chukhrai)
• General Della Rovere (Sergio Amidei, Diego Fabbri and Indro Montanelli)
• La Dolce Vita (Federico Fellini, Tullio Pinelli, Ennio Flaiano and Brunello Rondi)
• Lover Come Back (Stanley Shapiro and Paul Henning)
• Splendor in the Grass (William Inge)

Best Foreign Language Film

• Harry and the Butler (Denmark)
• Immortal Love (Japan)
• The Important Man (Mexico)
• Placido (Spain)
• Through a Glass Darkly (Sweden)

Art Direction (Black and White)

• The Absent-Minded Professor
• The Children's Hour
• The Hustler
• Judgment at Nuremberg
• La Dolce Vita

Art Direction (Color)

• Breakfast at Tiffany's
• El Cid
• Flower Drum Song
• Summer and Smoke
• West Side Story

Cinematography (Black and White)

• The Absent-Minded Professor
• The Children's Hour
• The Hustler
• Judgment at Nuremberg
• One, Two, Three

Cinematography (Color)

• Fanny
• Flower Drum Song
• A Majority of One
• One-Eyed Jacks
• West Side Story

Costume Design (Black and White)

• The Children's Hour
• Claudelle Inglish
• Judgment at Nuremberg
• La Dolce Vita
• Yojimbo

Costume Design (Color)

• Babes in Toyland
• Back Street
• Flower Drum Song
• Pocketful of Miracles
• West Side Story

Documentary Feature

• La Grande Olimpiade (Olympic Games 1960)
• Le Ciel et la Boue (Sky Above and Mud Beneath)

Documentary Short Subject

• Breaking the Language Barrier
• Cradle of Genius
• Kahl
• L'Uomo in Grigio (The Man in Gray)
• Project Hope

Film Editing

• Fanny
• The Guns of Navarone
• Judgment at Nuremberg
• The Parent Trap
• West Side Story

Original Score for Drama or Comedy

• Breakfast at Tiffany's (Henry Mancini)
• El Cid (Miklos Rozsa)
• Fanny (Morris Stoloff and Harry Sukman)
• The Guns of Navarone (Dimitri Tiomkin)
• Summer and Smoke (Elmer Bernstein)

Original Score for Musical

• Babes in Toyland (George Bruns)
• Flower Drum Song (Alfred Newman and Ken Darby)
• Khovanshchina (Dimitri Shostakovich)
• Paris Blues (Duke Ellington)
• West Side Story (Saul Chaplin, Johnny Green, Sid Ramin and Irwin Kostal)

Original Song

• "Bachelor in Paradise" (Bachelor in Paradise) Music by Henry Mancini. Lyrics by Mack David.
• "Love Theme From El Cid (The Falcon and the Dove)" (El Cid) Music by Miklos Rozsa. Lyrics by Paul Francis Webster.
• "Moon River" (Breakfast at Tiffany's) Music by Henry Mancini. Lyrics by Johnny Mercer.
• "Pocketful of Miracles" (Pocketful of Miracles) Music by James Van Heusen. Lyrics by Sammy Cahn.
• "Town Without Pity" (Town Without Pity) Music by Dimitri Tiomkin. Lyrics by Ned Washington.

Animated Short Film (Cartoons)

• Aquamania (Walt Disney Productions; Buena Vista)
• Beep Prepared (Roadrunner and Coyote Series)
• Ersatz (The Substitute)
• Nelly's Folly (Nelly the Giraffe Series)
• Pied Piper of Guadalupe (Speedy Gonzalez and Sylvester Series)

Live Action Short Film

• Ballon Vole (Play Ball!)
• The Face of Jesus
• Rooftops of New York (Musical Travelbook Series)
• Seawards the Great Ships
• Very Nice, Very Nice

Sound

• The Children's Hour
• Flower Drum Song
• The Guns of Navarone
• The Parent Trap
• West Side Story

Visual Effects

• The Absent-Minded Professor
• The Guns of Navarone